ReFocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Smith, Frances; Shary, Timothy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Refocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling is the first book-length study of the work of Amy Heckerling, the phenomenally popular director and screenwriter of Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. As such, the book constitutes a significant intervention in Film Studies, prompting a reconsideration of the importance of Heckerling both in the development of Teen cinema, and as a figure in Hollywood comedy. As part of the Refocus series, the volume brings together outstanding original essays examining Heckerling's work from a variety of perspectives, including film, television and cultural studies and is destined to be used widely in undergraduate teaching.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474404624
• Artikelnr.: 50216605

Autorenporträt

Frances Smith is a Teaching Fellow at University College London Timothy Shary is Adjunct Instructor at Southern New Hampshire University's College of Online and Continuing Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Film and Television Work by Amy Heckerling
Chapter 1: Introduction, Frances Smith and Timothy Shary
I: Heckerling in Teen Film and Television
Chapter 2: Cher and Dionne BFFs: Female Friendship, Genre, and Medium
Specificity in the Film and Television Versions of Amy Heckerling's
Clueless, Susan Berridge
Chapter 3: Fast Times with Clueless Losers: Lessons on Sex and Gender in
Amy Heckerling's Teen Films, Zachary Finch
Chapter 4: "As If a Girl's Reach Should Exceed Her Grasp": Gendering
Genericity and Spectatorial Address in the Work of Amy Heckerling, Mary
Harrod
II: Ingenuity and Irony in the Heckerling Lexicon
Chapter 5: Consumerism and the Languages of Class: American Teenagers View
Amy Heckerling's Clueless, Andrea Press and Ellen Rosenman
Chapter 6: "An increasingly valid form of expression": Teen-speak and
Community Identity in the Work of Amy Heckerling, Lisa Richards
III: Femininity, Ageing, and Postfeminism
Chapter 7: Look Who's Doing the Caring: Shared Parenting, Subjectivity, and
Gender Roles in Heckerling's Look Who's Talking Films, Claire Jenkins
Chapter 8: Amy Heckerling's Place in Hollywood: Issues of Aging and
Sisterhood in I Could Never Be Your Woman and Vamps, Betty Kaklamanidou
Chapter 9: "Staying Young is Getting Old": Youth and Immortality in Vamps,
Murray Leeder
IV: Reflections on the Heckerling Oeuvre
Chapter 10: "But seriously, I actually have a way normal life for a teenage
girl": The Teenage Female Empowerment Payoff in Amy Heckerling's Clueless,
Stefania Marghitu and Lindsey Alexander
Chapter 11: Clueless Times at the Ferris Bueller Club: A Critical Analysis
of the Directorial Works of Amy Heckerling and John Hughes, Kimberly M.
Miller
Chapter 12: Way Hilarious: Amy Heckerling as a Female Comedy Director,
Writer, and Producer, Lesley Speed
Appendix: Other Films and Television Shows Cited in this Collection
Bibliography
Contributors